I am an evil giraffe. Who no longer blogs about politics.

…at an Italian chophouse and put on a suit. Although, to be fair, it was a really good Italian chophouse. For some reason, I had never associated Italy with steaks, despite the entire ‘Tuscan rib-eye’ thing…

Yes, that’s a real card. You get that kind of perk when you’re Richard Garfield (the guy who created Magic: The Gathering). Although I never would have let that card stay in my Patriot Deck*…

Moe Lane

*Red (ROATS)/White (Creatures)/Blue (Denial): I later dumped out all the blue cards for white lands, low-casting cost critters, and a couple Sunglasses of Urza. Then I grabbed White/whatever multi-lands until I had enough to justify inserting you-never-know cards. Then I realized that this was crack in cardboard form, and stopped playing.

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And dual lands. Blah. What really drove me from the game was the way they kept changing the rules and the power levels, trying to micromanage the natural evolution of strategies while encouraging you to keep buying whole new sets of cards.

Ironically I got off the treadmill right after completing a Fallen Empires set.